The Straits Budget, 9 June 1955

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    28 1 The Straits Budget THE WEEKLY ISSUE OF THE STRAITS TIMES MALAYA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER A* series No. 459. Thursday, June 9, 1955. Price 40 cents (Malayan)] Or 1 Shilling.
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  • From THE STRAITS TIMES POSTBAG
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      IMPROVEMENT TRUST FOR EDUCATION?
      255 2  -  ANTI-HYSTERIA. Singapore. rrHE Chinese middle l schools have always been plagued by acute shortages of many essential things which are taken for granted in the English schools. Very briefly, there are cbntinual and shortages of funds, properly trained and properly paid staff, buildings, playgrounds, and general
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      A STORM IN A TEACUP?
      292 2  -  MUSLIM WOMAN. Malacca. CONTROVERSY has arisen because a Muslim woman. Che Rahma, posed for a picture arm-in-arm with two American sailors on board a ship. A certain association, of which Che Rahma is a member is also contemplating some sort of action because they say
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      ‘EVILS’ DO NOT EXIST
      126 2  -  B. C. D. Taiping rE Labour Party, wherever it may be, is the counterpart of the Labour Party of Britain, for it follows the same policy as the latter. It is high time that it changed its policy and followed the Conservatives, for I am convinced
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      Malaya and Britain
      69 2  -  PUZZLED Singapore. IAM told by those who are supposed to know that the unrest and strikes in this city are due to the victory of the Labour Front in the recent election. In Britain the Labour Party was defeated, and today that country is confronted with an
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      Let the old hands help
      99 2  -  L. M. NETTO. Singapore. IAM surprised to read about the fear of the Government employees about victimisation if they take an active part in the Whitley Council. It is time they got some spirited ex Government employees to join on the Whitley Council for discussion.
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      Cheap capital
      222 2  -  OVER-ASSESSED. Singapore. IT is astonishing that one statement by Mr. Rajah in the City Council should have passed without comment. Mr. Rajah said that the Singapore Traction Company was a foreign company and the money it earned was being given to shareholders overseas. One wonders how a British
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      Was this ‘bad farm’?
      105 2  - Was this bad farm’ COMMONER. Singapore. YYEFERRING to the speech that Mr. David Marshall n»ade at the Youth Conference on Malayanization, he made mention of the Governor as an expatriate officer who might, from time time, put obstacles to the programme or policy of the Labour Front or Government. To
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      A loss to Malaya
      60 2  -  K. V. NAIK Port Dickson. IT (s a pity indeed that Mr. Brazier will no more be available to Malayan workers for advice. Mr. Brazier saved the workers of Malaya from being misguided by Communist thugs; saved them from the suppression of employers by disclosing their
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      ‘Zeal’ at the customs barrier
      144 2  - Zeal’ at the customs barrier INVICTA. Penang. YOUR editorial “The I Involuntary Taxpay- I er” describes the customs officer at Butterworth as “over-zealous”. This is putting the matter ver> mildly. To thousands of peop* crossing to the mainland from Penang, it has been their unfortunate exp* rience to meet this
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      Lock icon Backdated Deadlock
      588 3 —Straits Times, June 2. Negotiations to end the Singapore Harbour Board strike which at one stage were making excellent progress, are now deadloked. The main obstacle is back pay, that familiar issue that has bedevilled so many attempts to settle wace disputes in Malaya since the war. As
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      Lock icon The Drivers Change Over
      670 3 —Straits Times, June 2. Perhaps Mr. David Marshall should have threatened, in the Legislative Assembly last week, to take over the Singapore Traction Company forthwith. Perhaps he should have declared his Government’s willingness to disburse the “peanuts” necessary for the purchase of this company. Had he
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      Lock icon A Workers’ Charter
      662 3 —Straits Times, June 3. Twenty years ago, the Employment Bill which was approved by the Federal Legislative Council on Wednesday would have caused consternation among some employers. But it is sign of the new outlook on employee-employer relations that the Select Committee, on which employers and workers
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      Lock icon Houses For Sale
      587 3 —Straits Times, June 3. The Singapore Government must not expect a round of applause for its plan to build $5,000 houses for sale to people in the low-income groups. At first sight, the proposition is not without some superficial attraction. Payment will be by instalment, and the
      —Straits Times, June 3.  -  587 words
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      Lock icon A Windfall For Johore
      380 4 —Straits Times June 4. While the Johore Government can congratulate itself on having secured a special grant of $765,000 from the Federal Treasury, the Legislative Council can hardly be congratulated for having overruled its Finance Committee’s decision against the grant. Johore no doubt had reason to
      —Straits Times June 4.  -  380 words
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      Lock icon The Greedy Groups
      522 4 —Straits Times, June 6. The aggressive solidarity that the U.MN.O.-M.C.A. Alliance has shown these past few years is being threatened by a strong body of opinion within U.M.N.O. which is not at all disposed to sharing political power with its allies. Jhis dissenting group, Tengku Abdul Rahman
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      Lock icon Calling In The Experts
      692 4 —Straits Times, June 7. The Alliance has taken a long time, the best part of a year, writing its statement of political faith and framing its election platform. Election tactics may have partly accounted for this prolonged delay. By allowing its political rival to lay its
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      Lock icon Equality Plus
      664 4 —Straits Times, June 8 The memorandum on Chinese education to be submitted by Singapore Chinese organisations to the Legislative Assembly’s All-Party Committee will be notable for what it omits rather than what it contains. All of the five points on which the memorandum will be based have been
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  • PERSONAL
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      BIRTHS
      84 4 SMITH: To Ted and Marion son, Ross Edward, at Kandai Kerbau Hospital. 2-6-55. Both v THOMPSON: To Margaret au. Trevor, a daughter, at Kerbau Hospital, on Ist J une AIH LARKMAN: To Joy (Nee A d man) and Arthur, a son Brodni at Singapore Nursing Home. June Both very
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    IT WAS PRESTON ALL AGAIN
    866 5  -  By LEE SIEW YEE SINGAPORE, June 6. I 'HE Thomas Cup, symbol of world championship in buiminton. remains in Malaya r three more years. Winning u- out Of last night's five L itches in the Singapore S'ld'ninton Hall, the Malayan hi ■tiers established the overtiming
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    Lock icon THE CUP STAYS in MALAYA
    83 5 SINGAPORE. June 5. IT’S ALL OVER. Malava have won the Thomas Cup for the third time in succession. Here is part of the reception the man w r ho scored the winning point—Ong Poh Lim —was given immediate- ly after beating Ole Jensen. This victory
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    East Yorks for front line
    44 5 SINGAPORE, June 7. The Ist East Yorks, who have been training in Singapore, will return to the Federation soon, an Army spokesman said yesterday. The East Yorks, who formerly operated in central Johore. were posted to Singapore last month.
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    TENSION GRIPS RIOT CAMP
    307 5 Barriers built, roll calls refused IPOIi, June 6. rpHE atmosphere in the Ipoh detention camp where three Chinese detainees were shot dead in a riot on the night of June 4 was tense today. Detainees refused to answer all roll-calls earlier today and have demonstrated by
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    Meyer, 94, dies
    29 5 Mr. Ezra Meyer, a former official of the Chased-El Synagogue, Singapore, died in Haifa. Israel, recently. He was 94. Mr. Meyer left Singapore four years ago.
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    RIVER BANK FALLS ON BOY
    78 5 RAWANG, June 6. Part of a r*v- -ok Elapsed and killed a 13-year-old schoolhoy outside Rawang on June 4. Lam Wing Fatt. a second* year student of the local Chinese school, had gone to the Sungei Rawang for a of 4 He was in the
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    As I was Saying
    1284 6  -  CYNICU9 SINGAPORE, June 4. AT meetings of the Singapore Legislative Assembly, members of the Labour Front have extracted a good deal of amusement by calling the Progressives “converts to Socialism.” It now seems that Mr. Lim Choong Mong and his colleagues will be in a position
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    Lock icon Saturday study
    9 6 NAVY BUGLER Picture by Kok Ah Cheong.
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    VERNON BARTLETT comments... The riots have changed the city
    639 6 MAY 12 was not merely the day when an ugly riot broke out in Singapore. It was, in its relatively small way, a revolution, which my dictionary defines as “an instance of a great change in affairs.” Things are not the
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    Tax on horses would be ‘bad bet’
    404 7 KUALA LUMPUR, June 3. ii t ITH the decline in W Stake money and the steadily increasing cost of keeping a horse m training, racing in Malay a is facing a grave crisis and a tariff on racehorses may be the a st
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    Countryman’s Journal
    656 7  -  TUAN DJEK. ONE -vod shower during the ling May 26. On two mornings the temperature .1 7 o'clock in the sitting-room rees F., rising to 70 by 8 o'clock; the last occasion 08 was registered was in July i960. At 3 p.m. one day the reading was 92;
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    Lock icon FIFTY YEARS AGO
    118 7 From the Straits Times of June 1, 1905. THE “iron horse” will very soon, in the opinion of the “Straits Echo,’’ make its presence felt in that sleepy hollow, Malacca. The last rail to connect Seremban with this town was. we hear, laid on Monday before last,
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    Fighting the ’umidity
    928 7  - Fighting the umidity MALA YSIA.X A'OTLttOtM STANLEY STREET. “IT’S not the ’eat mate, 1 but the* ’umidity which gets me down,” said the New Arrival, looking; defiantly into the perspiring; glass of beer. “As a matter of fact,” he continued, "I like ’eat —summer and winter. But this blarsted ‘umidity
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    MARSHALL IN NEW BID TO END STRIKE
    214 7 SINGAPORE, June 4. THE Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, invited officials of the Singapore Harbour Board Start Association to his office yesterday to end the 35-day strike by 1.300 monthly paid workers. They talked for 75 minutes. The association officials reaffirmed that arbitration
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    YOU MUST HAVE A UNION CARD TO SHOW
    299 8 68 Singapore Improvement Trust houses going cheap, but there’s a snag Government told: Your scheme is unfair SINGAPORE, June 2. THE SINGAPORE MINISTER f or Local Government, Lands and Housing, Inche Abdul Hamid bin Haji Jumat, yesterday said that trade unionists would
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    $4,600,000 WILL GO TO KEDAH
    109 8 Govt, announces padi aid plan KUALA LUMPUR, June 1. I/EDAH will get the big- gest share of the $10 million which the Federation Government is to pay for the relief of padi planters who suffered losses when the guaranteed price was cut. The State will
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    Terror village swoop
    285 8 10 held —guards’ guns taken away KUALA LUMPUR, June 1. SECURITY forces swooped on Jerembong Village in the Pergau Valley in South Kelantan early this morning and held ten people for interrogation. After a house-to-house search they took 32 guns and ammunition from the village Home Guards
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    The switch-on
    21 8 JOHORE BAHRU. June 1 The Regent of Johore today turned a switch to give Merging its first electric supply.
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    Lock icon ‘Badminton, builder of goodwill’: Thomas
    119 8 Sir GEORGE THOMAS, donor of the Thomas Cup being competed for in Singapore this week, on June 1 said badminton had helped to foster understanding and goodwill between nations of the East and West. Sir George, who was speaking to Singapore Rotarians. said his convictions
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    For ‘Mr. Speaker’ a higher salary
    196 8 $2,000 A MONTH FOR UDA KUALA LUMPUR, June 1. HPHE next Speaker of the Federal Legislative Council. Raja Sir Uda, will receive a higher salary and allowances than the present holder of the office, Dato Mahmud bin Mat. who is to retire soon. The
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    Fleets for Singapore
    92 8 SINGAPORE, June 2. CUFTEEN warships of the Royal Navy, the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal New Zealand Navy are now steaming to Singapore for the Queen’s birthday celebrations on June 9. It will be one of the biggest concentrations of naval power in Singapore since the
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    A polite note instead of a warning
    202 8 HEW POLICY FOR MINOR ROAD OFFENCES KOTA BHARU, June 1 SINGAPORE Traffic Police have introduced a new system in the handling of minor infringements by motorists. The system does away with the previous practice of ••warning'' oifenders and entering the waitings in record
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    Death rail pay-out: News soon
    82 8 KUALA LUMPUR, June l THE FEDERATION government will soon tell former prisoners of war or their dependants how to claim awards from the money raided by the sale of the Siam ‘‘Death Railway.” The Federation share is abou $35,000 and S25 is to be P*"
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    ‘Demob’ costs
    41 8 KUALA LUMPUR. June 1 The Federation Governn has paid out nearly $ll mnu; to demobbed special constat.» to help them on their to civil life, states a v\m Paper tabled at todays m< ing of the Federal Legisla Council.
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    AFTER TWO YEARS of TOIL A WORKERS CHARTER
    812 9 The chief provision is that all who work for a living should be protected against exploitation by their employers KUALA LUMPUR, June 1. Y| ALAYA’S first 1 1 charter of workers rights, providing for introduction of labour courts and guaranteeing protection of
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    Nominated men lose last-ditch battle
    316 9 BACK-TO*WALL PLEA: SHOULD HAVE SAY IN COUNCIL* KUALA LUMPUR, June 1. A NOMINATED member, Mr. H. M. Fuller, told (he Kuala Lumpur Municipal Council last night (hiit he strongly objected to having a fully elected council because minority communities would then have no share in
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    THE DEVOTION OF LAC HARON
    193 9 Officer slain —alone he fought 3 Reds SINGAPORE, June 2. A LEADING aircraftman who, after his officer bad been killed in an engagement with three terrorists in Malaya fought them singlehanded and drove them off. has been awarded the military Medal for Distinguished Service, it
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    Fressanges for London
    50 9 SINGAPORE, June 2. Air Marshal Francis J. Fressanges. Commander-in-Chicf Far East Air Force, will leave Singapore lor London by air tomorrow to attend the annual conference of the Chief of the Air Stall. He will also have consultations with the Chief of Stall and other Service chiefs.
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    $3 MIL. FOR WAR ASSETS
    54 9 KUALA LUMPUR. June 1The War Department and the Royal Air Force will get more than $3,000,000 from the Federation Government in payment for certain “fixed assets.” These comprise Bailey bridges, bridging materials, barracks, water supplies and aircraft hangars, all built either in 1940-1941 or since
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    GOVT. BANS OFFENDING LIFE MAGAZINE
    119 9 KUALA LUMPUR. June I.—The Federation Government has banned the sale of the December 1954 issue of the American magazine Life which contained a coloured picture of the Prophet Mohammed. Announcing this in the Federal Legislative Council today, the Member for Social and ludustrial Relations, Inche
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    Ballet success
    32 9 KUALA LUMPUR. June L Three young ballet (lancers Sooner Goh, choo Chiat Goh and Blossom Shek—performed before a packed town hall here last night and were given an enthusiastic reception.
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    Lock icon SIR JOHN SAYS FAREWELL ‘Good luck’ he tells the Chief Minister
    72 10 “GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL.” says the retiring Governor, S ir John Nicoll, as he shakes hand with the Chief Minister, Mr. David Marshall, on board the Oranje on June 2 just before the liner steamed away. Waiting for
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    FAREWELL SIR JOHN AND GOODLUCK
    245 10 SINGAPORE, June 3 J'HE retiring Governor of Singapore, Sir John Nicoll, sailed in the Oranje for London late yesterday afternoon. Sir John, in ceremonial dress and red and white plumed hat, took the salute for the last time at a colourful dockside review of Malayan
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    NAVAL BASE DISPUTE ENDS
    175 10 Strike notice to be withdrawn SINGAPORE, June 3. T'HE Singapore Naval Base Labour Union is to withA draw the strike notice it served on H. M. Dockyard authorities last week. The dispute over the dismissal of a shop steward for insubordination was settled yesterday. The case
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    Rotary film show raises $3,200
    47 10 SINGAPORE, June 3 The Singapore Rotary Club raised more than $3,200 for the Children’s Convalescent Home from its charity film show “Interrupted Melody" at the Cathay cinema on May 25. The convalescent home is the club’s community service project for this year.
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    THIS COUNCIL is ONLY a MEMORY NOW After last farewells, all thoughts turn to future
    431 10 KUALA LUMPUR, June 2. WITH expressions or goodwill and good luck In the Federal elections, members of the Legislative Council tied up their papers and folders for the last time at 4.40 p.m. today and
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    THIS HAS THE POLICE GUESSING
    105 10 Magazine report on riots SINGAPORE, June 3. A HONG KONG magazine’s reference to the Communist organisation's People’s Livelihood Society has the Singapore police guessing. “We have no information of the existence of such a society,” a Special Branch spokesman told the Straits Times yesterday The
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    Goode takes over
    55 10 SINGAPORE, June 3. The Chief Secretary, Mr. W. A. C. Goode, will act as Officer Administering the Government until the arrival oi the Governor-designate. Mr R. B. Black, on June 30. the Singapore Government announced last night. Mr. A. A. Williams, Deputv Chief Secretary, will act as
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    —So it is combined ops
    151 10 REMOTE PERAK AREAS SET POLLING PROBLEM IPOH, June 2. THE 150 voters of Temengor in the Ulu Perak Hilir ward have set the elections oilicc here a problem. The area is so remote that getting ballot papers to them and back to the counting station
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    A wedding guest and a gun: Then bang
    318 11 SINGAPORE. June 3. a YOUNG British soldier. who got drunk at a wedding reception, tired a bullet from his rifle while trying to .show a Servicewoman how it worked, a Singapore court-martial was told yesterday. Lance Corporal Morris Hawkins. 21. of G.H.Q.
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    Life and soul of the party PROGRESSIVES PLAN A ‘NEW LOOK’ AIMED AT POPULAR APPEAL
    314 11 Life and soul of the party PROGRESSIVES PLAN A NEW LOOK AIMED AT POPULAR APPEAL SINGAPORE, June 3. SINGAPORE’S oldest political body, the Progresk Party, is to be so thoroughly re-organised a* to get a practically new constitution with a new approach to the public. Drastic changes, which Mr. Kevin
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    Nanyang to begin session on June 15
    98 11 SINGAPORE, June 3. THE Nanyang University’s preparatory classes will start in Singapore on June 15 with courses in arts at the Chung Cheng High School and in science at the Chinese High School. Of the 497 candidates who passed the entrance examinations last
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    $5,000 houses for sale
    140 11 SCHEME TO BUILD MODERN HOMES SINGAPORE, June 3. JJOUSES with two bed 11 rooms and modern sanitation are to be sold in Singapore at less than $5,000 each. The houses will be built by the Singapore Government. The Ministry of Local Government, Lands and Housing, said
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    New arrivals
    26 11 SINGAPORE, June 3. The 3.300-ton Hoi Houw arrived in Singapore yesterday from the Red China port of Swatow with 275 passengers for the Colony.
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    Govt. bid to stop bus firm take-over
    387 11 SINGAPORE, June 3. 'pHE SINGAPORE Government may try to stop the City Council taking over the Singapore Traction Company which runs the Colony’s biggest bus fleet. The Minister for Communications and Works, Mr. Francis Thomas, yesterday asked the Attorney-Gener-al for a report on
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    Shotgun ketua leads the pursuit
    645 11 VILLAGERS ROUT REDS RENGAM, June 2. gEHIND a hail of fire from their Home Guards the people of Kampong Ulu Benut on the main Johore trunk road, three miles north of Simpang Rengam, last night chased 20 terrorists who had unsuccessfully attempted to seize weapons.
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    $1 mil. opium seized
    494 12 SINGAPORE, June 3. \fORE THAN $1,000,000 worth of opium was seized from the sea by the Singapore Customs yesterday after days of close watch on a ship from the Persian Gulf. The consignment was for a large smuggling ring operating in Singapore. The haul, the biggest
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    The gag is off
    196 12 COUNCILLORS CAN NOW TALK FREELY KUALA LUMPUR, June 1. THE lips of Federal A Legislative Councillors are to be unsealed. They may now legally tell the Press what they propose to bring up in the Council. A standing committee of the Council has recommended the revocation
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    $8,000 fine on woman
    52 12 BUTTERWORTH, June 3 Udah binte Haji Mohamed was yesterday fined $B,OOO, or two months’ jail for possessing 50 tahils of prepared opium. The drug, worth $2,000 and wrapped up in five packages, was seized in a Customs raid on an attap hut at Permatang Janggus on
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    The Speaker ticks off two newspapers LET NEW COUNCIL TAKE ACTION
    323 12 THEY ACCUSED HIM OF BIAS IN USING CASTING VOTE KUALA LUMPUR, June 1. JVVO MALAYAN NEWSPAPERS, The Malayan Mirror—organ of the Malayan Chinese Association —and the Utusan Zaman—a Malay Sunday paper published in Singapore—were criticised by the speaker, Dato
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    Sir Donald sees magazine office
    40 12 KUALA LUMPUR, June 3. The High Commisioner. Sir Donald MacGillivray, today saw how Malaya’s youth magazine. “Youth Malayans” was produced. He visited its office and spoke to the staff for more than half an hour.
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    Plea for time rejected
    152 12 Chinese set for mass meeting SINGAPORE, June 3. MR. CHEW SWEE KEE, chairman of the allparty committee appointed by the Government to investigate Chinese school problems. has written to the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, rejecting its request for the extension of the committee’s deadline for
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    Village highwayman
    169 12 MALACCA, June 3. rpHE Jasin District Officer, Mr. G. C. Norris, has promised to look into a complaint by a man who reported that he had to pay a dollar at the 20th mile before he could use the Parit Penghulu Road in Sungei Rambei district. In a
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    The right spiritbut new headache
    350 12 "MU THAT WHISKY PEG MAY HAVE TO BE TAKEN DOWN... HHiimiiiii SINGAPORE, June 2. WHISKY drinkers are TT likely to be the first people affected in Singapore if the dock and rail strikes in Britain continue. The heads of the big import Arms said that
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    Cabby: Thrice I pleaded for Symonds
    1886 14 HE WAS AT THE AMERICAN CLUB WHEN IN CAME A CABLE: COVER THE RIOTS FOR TELEVISION SINGAPORE, June 7. ALTHOUGH about 50 people had been arrested and charged following the riots in Singapore on May 12, the police had “by no means” finished their
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    Federal Council is dissolved
    181 14 KUALA LUMPUR, June 6. THE High Commissioner, Sir Donald MacGillivW- today dissolved the old Legislative Counc j issued writs for the Federation’s first nation tions, to be held on July 27 Nomination Day is next Wednesday. The probable line up of candidates by political parties is:
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    3 died, 17 injured in detainee riot
    397 15 PRISONERS ‘TRUCULENT’ SINCE SINGAPORE DISTURBANCES POLICE CALLED IN IPOH, June 5. rrllKEE Chinese detainees died after they were shot during a riot at the Ipoh detention camp last night., The detainees, suspected Communists, were wounded when warders opened lire as they were attacked.
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    Month came in storm for father and son
    192 15 niv 4 KLUANG, June 4. S A terrorists hacked their 'V' y through the peri7’;, t( r f Pnce at Yap Tau n l w village at 6.30 p.m. ''icrday and murdered a ;>< r and his son. under cov of a
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    Thousands are hit by drought
    292 15 SINGAPORE, June 6. of villagers A in the rural districts of Singapore are feeling the effects of the past three weeks’ drought. Little rain has fallen in that time and many wells are almost completely dried up. The city, supplied by reser* voirs, has so
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    Reds kill Malacca planter
    112 15 MALACCA, June 4. A popular figure in Malacca planting and sporting circles, Mr. B. L. H. Sheppard, was today ambushed and killed by terrorists on an estate road about 30 miles from here. Mr. Sheppard, who was 61, was on an inspection tour of the Chabau
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    NO POLITICS FOB STUDENTS—
    245 15 NO POLITICS FOB STUDENTS Yes or no today’s big meeting on Chinese schools will decide SINGAPORE, June 6. gTUDENTS should be forbidden by law from joining any political party. This would give them more time for their studies. This is one of seven proposals, whose inclusion in a memorandum to
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    MAN OF 75 LOSES HIS LIFE FOR 22 CENTS
    95 15 PENANG, June 5. LIM CHOOI NUM, 75, an inmate of the Penang Home for the Aged lost his life yesterday because of 22 cents. After alighting from a municipal bus in front of the home in Batu Lanchang he suddenly remembered
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    This is the school I sent my son to
    239 15 SIR DONALD TELLS THE ‘OUTWARD DOUND’ DOTS: LUMUT, June 5. THE High Commissioner, A Sir Donald MacGillivray, and the Director of Operations, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Geoffrey Bourne, were so convinced of the usefulness of Outward Bound school training that they sent their
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    ALL AT ONE MEETING: IN AND OUT OF OFFICE
    99 15 KLANG, June s.—'Three officials elected at the annual meeting of the Klang Young Malayans’ Club last night resigned soon after the meeting. They were the president, Mr. C. Gnaneswaran. the treasurer. Inch*' Kamaruddin Ismail. antf >e secretary, Mr. S. S. Tan.
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    TEMPERS AND BOOS AT BIG MEETING
    578 16 No-politics-for-students move is dropped after debate 21 men will draft that memo on schools SINGAPORE, June 7. yiOLENT clashes of opinion, successfully brought under control, were the main feature at the meeting of 502 Singapore Chinese organisations held in the Chinese Chamber of Commerce
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    New row for arbitrator
    166 16 SPARE POOL JOBS SET OFF DISPUTE SINGAPORE, June 7. MR. CHARLES GAMBA, arbitrator in the Hock Lee Bus Company dispute, has been called in to settle a new row that has arisen between the company and the Singapore Bus Workers’ Union. He will meet the company’s
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    SINGING ROBBERS BEGUILED FAMILY
    315 16 SINGAPORE, June 7. YOUNG thief, with a fine voice sang and kept nine women and children entertained for about 45 minutes, w hile three of his gang ransacked a house in Dunbar Walk, off Frankel Estate, on the night of June 5. The gang got away
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    Bandit dies
    24 16 Security forces wounded and captured a woman terrorist in the Sepang area of south-west Selangor on June 6. The woman died later.
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    Mr. David Marshall?
    342 16 SINGAPORE, June 7. THE Chief Minister, Mr. 1 David Marshall, said yesterday that if a referendum among the electorate in Singapore resulted in the majority asking for a return to pure colonialism he would abide by the decision. Mr. Marshall was speaking at the Founder’s Day ceremony
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    JAGAN No, no, no
    253 16 indeed, our hope to infuse all communities ith the ardent desire to break down communal barkers K n< L to ork Aether as brothers in building up a great, new independent nation. “The recent riots and the activities of some students have brought into star time
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    Bourne tells guards: ‘lt’s splendid’
    84 16 KUALA LUMPUR, June 3 THE Director of Operations. Lt.-Gen. Sir Geoffrey Bourne, and the InspectorGeneral of the Home Guard, Maj.-Gen. E. B. de Fonblanque. have sent telegrams of congratulation to the Home Guards at Kampong Ulu Benut, Johore. who on June 1 routed a gang
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    Workers boycott strike-bound firms
    164 16 SINGAPORE, June 6. A SINGAPORE lighterage firm another company whose goods the firm handles are being boycotted by workers because a strike by 56 lightermen still remains unsettled after four months. The 56 lightermen, employed by Swee Hin Company, stopped work four months ago and all
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    Scholarship
    49 17 Singapore student Yogendrjn Ponnian, of Penang Road, who was at Wesley College in Melbourne. has now been awarded an Australian Government Scholarship under the Colombo Plan for a four-year course in civil engineering at Hse University of Melbourne. He had his early education at Raffles Institution, in Singapore.
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    5 men vs 10 Reds -SPECIALS WIN
    166 17 KUALA LUMPUR, June 7. VIVE Special Constables 1 routed 10 terrorists, who laid an ambush inside the perimeter wire of Kangar Pulai village in the Gelang Patah DLstrict of Johore at dawn today. They killed one bandit. Special Constable Abu Bakar bin Rawi
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    JUDGE DECIDES: I’LL NOT HEAR this CASE
    502 17 Reference in poll suit to magistrates during Jap occupation, so- 1 SINGAPORE, June 8. SINGAPORE District Judge yesterday decided he would not try a case after the defence counsel had drawn his attention to references in the suit to a magistrate’s duties during
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    Sultans attend Malaya Hall party in London
    80 17 THE SULTAN OF PERAK (left) and the Sultan of Johore at the Hari Raya Puasa celebrations at Malaya Hall in London. The Sultan of Perak recently visited Southend. It was one of several visits the Sultan has paid to the popular Essex seaside
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    FOUR SPECIAL CONSTABLES ARE ACCUSED
    90 17 KUALA LUMPUR, June 7. ch ur, s 3e al constables were ini here toda y with StealKi ]i 4 f rorn a colleague at on j2ne a 4 Mine Puchong pfe d Hamid aged 21, Othmtr and the others, bin. Hassan, aged 24, 22 «2'‘5L?
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    DATO ONN MEETS THE ANTI-ALLIANCE MEN
    135 17 IPOH, June 7. nATO Sir Onn bin Ja’afar. Secretary-General of Party Negara and Dato E. E. C. Thuraisingam, a committee member of the party, today held informal discussions with officials of various political parties in Perak that are in opposition to the UMNO MCA
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    OFF TO CHINA -A BANKER’S DAUGHTER
    210 17 SINGAPORE, June 8. ]y|ISS LEE HWEE HUANG, 19, daughter of the Singapore multi-millionaire Mr. Lee Wee Nam, has defied her father and gone to China, it was learned yesterday. Miss Lee left Singapore in the TJiwangi on May 24 without telling her father. She
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    Kajang needy get U.S. aid
    38 17 KAJANO, June 7.—The Catholic Welfare Committee in the United States has given eight cartons of cotton seed oil and 60 of milk for distribution to the needy and sick in the Kajang district.
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    PHONE THREAT TO INQUIRY WITNESS
    1893 18 SINGAPORE, June 8. CHINESE youth who helped to take the American journalist Gene D. Symonds to hospital after he was beaten by rioters in Singapore on May 12, was yesterday given police protection after being threatened by an anonymous telephone caller. Disclosure of the threat
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    MALAYA RETAINS THOMAS CUP
    856 18 [the" week in sporFI MALAYA retained the Thomas Cup with the first match placed on the second night of the challenge round, when their third singles player, Ong Poh Lim, disposed of Denmark’s Ole Jensen by 15-11, 15-8, in 24 minutes to increase their overnight 4-0
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    Bagby Stable lands a treble
    961 19  -  STEWARDS AWARD RACE TO SOOKA AFTER OBJECTION By EPSOM JEEP J ALA LUMPUR, June 1. IE Bagby Stable scored splendid hattrick v p Acrobat, Sooka and l ,‘hnut at Kuala Lumyesterday, second of the Selangor Turf c\ i May—June meeting. A at (Franklin) scored a
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    DONNELLY RIDES 4 WINNERS
    1009 19  -  B> EPSOM JEEP KI'AI A LUMPUR. June 5 Mickey Donnelly was 1 m gund riding form, landing four winners with Irish finance. Safari. Rippling River and Proctor at Kuala Lumpur yesterday, concluding day oi the Selangor Turf Club May-June Meeting. E1, a nce fought anM<r keen
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      88 19 TREBLE TOTE: 14 tickets ($125 each). FORECAST TOTE: Race 3: 17 tickets ($52). Race 5: 51 tickets ($15). Race 7: 14 tickets ($50). Big Sweep TOTAL POOL: $*****0. 1ST: No. *****3 ($62,059) 2ND: No. *****7 ($31,029) 3RD: No. *****3 ($15,514) STARTERS ($3,878 each) Nos: *****7; *****0; *****8; *****5. CONSOLATION each):
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    Higher price levels bring sales
    625 20 SHARE MARKET By Our Market Correspondent SINGAPORE, June 6. 'pHE Singapore Share Market last week held steady—but only just—and it is very apparent that any set-back in the precarious political situation or back-peddling by the Singapore Government would make itself felt again in no uncertain
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    BUSINESS DONE
    347 20 THE following business done in the Singapore Share Market last week was announced by one firm of brokers for the period May 28 to June Siindustrials: Alexandra Brick Ords. $2.25, C.T.S. 30s. 6d. and 30s. 9d., Fraser Sc Neave Ords. $1.75, Gammons $2 70. and $2,674 to $2.70,
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    DIVIDEND ANNOUNCED
    53 20 THE following dividend A was announced by a company operating in Malaya, last week:— LOWER PERAK TIN DREDGING LTD.: An interim dividend of 2s. per share, less 30 per cent income tax, for year ended April 30, payable in Kuala Lumpur and London June 29 to shareholders on
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    PRODUCE PRICES
    177 20 SINGAPORE. June 8. Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange: noon prices per picul yesterday were:— Copra: steady; June 928 18 buyers, $2B 3 8 sellers; July $2B 3 4 buyers. $29 L 4 sellers. Coconut oil: steady; bulk $42 12 sellers, drum $45 I|2 sellers. Pepper: steady with U.K. buying,
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    Recruiting tour
    22 20 KUALA LUMPUR, June 7. A recruiting team from the Ist Battalion. Federation Regiment, is to tour the counry this month.
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    MALAYAN SHARE QUOTATIONS
    861 20 SINGAPORE, June 8. I MM'S TRIALS Buyer* Sellers Alex. Bricks Pref 2 05 2.10 Ora* 2.20 2.30 Atlas ice 12.50 (buyers) B B Petrol 30'- 31/- xd BM. Trustees 6 50 7.00 Con. Tin Smelt. Pref 22/. Ords. 32/- 33/Eastern United 37.50 38 50 Fed, Dispensary 2.95
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    RUBBER MART IS CONFIDENT
    323 20 SINGAPORE. June 4. THE keynote of the rubber market this week has been one of quiet confidence, based on a sound statistical situation and underlying optimism, states the weekly report of Holiday, Cutler Bath Co., Ltd. The terminal markets have responded well, which leads to the
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    Dato Ibrahim of Johore is dead
    86 20 DATO IBRAHIM BIN AB DUL RAHMAN, former Deputy Mentri Besar of Johore. who died of illness on the night of June 2. The Dato retired earlier this year after 36 years’ service with the Johore Government. During his distinguished career, he had been State
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    P.C. LOST 10 BULLETSHE’S JAILED
    69 20 P.C. LOST 10 BULLETS—HE’S JAILED KUALA LUMPUR, June Police constable Sam Man of the High Street station, was today jaileri three months here foi ten bullets. The prosecution said San was entrusted with a riffe 1 25 bullets when he went duty on Sept. 9 last year. When he came
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    Blast flings man 10 feet
    37 20 KOTA BHARU. June 6. welder, Wong Sui Yaw. was flung 10 feet and oa hurt in an explosion in workshop here. Another der, Lim Eng Chong. 27. slightly hurt. Police are Investigating.
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